Soldiers' funds may be delayed in War Risk Bureau
Secretary Glass asks President Wilson to set aside over 3 million from the presidential war emergency fund to sustain War Risk Insurance Bureau for months until Congress provides funds. Payroll exceeds 41,000,900 monthly with about 1.2 million monthly checks totaling over 40 million dollars.
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Washington
Glass
Wilson
Presidential War Emergency Fund
War Risk Insurance Bureau
Congress
War Risk Bureau
Funds to cover allotment and allowance checks
Officials announced that bureau funds will cover allotment and allowance checks through March and April. Checks arrive one month late, so March allowances are effectively funded. If funds are not found by early May, delays could grow, with spending limited to administrative expenses of physical operations.
Flag of Erin Still Waves Over Pittsfield High
Police patrolled the high school after a St Patrick’s Eve flag incident. The green Erin flag returned to the pole, replacing an orange flag raised by Ulster sympathizers a week earlier. Two boys were found inside with a human skeleton from the lab, confessing plans to raise the US flag with the skeleton as a Kaiser mockery. They were released after questioning. all three youths involved were of Jewish and Irish backgrounds.
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Pittsfield
Erin
United States
Home of Horace Greeley to be Saved
Vermont committee secures option on the old Greeley house at East Poultney to create a Horace Greeley memorial The building may be restored and a memorial tablet erected honoring the famed newspaperman who learned the printer trade there
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Burlington
Albanian National Party appoints delegates to Paris peace talks
Two Albanian American delegates Mihal Granieno and Miss P D Kyrias are to sail for Paris to present Albanian aims at the peace conference. Christo A Dako is named representative to the U S government, with resolutions urging Albanian unity and independence and calling for withdrawal of Italian troops from Vallona.
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Mihal Granieno
P. D. Kyrias
Paris
Europe
Christo A. Dako
United States Organization
United States
Albanian Organization In America
Wilson
Clemenceau
Peace Conference
Kossovo
Chameria
Serbia
Greece
Vallona
Adriatic
Albania
Tear Gas To Drive Rioters
Tear shells modeled after World War II era US munitions will be used to disperse fighting mobs and strikers. The new shells, similar in construction to wartime devices, will cause irritation for three to eight hours without serious injury.
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United States
Uncle Sam
St. Mihiel
Howe urges chemical public as aid to riot control and science education
Harrison E. Howe of the United States Advisory Board of Chemistry spoke to members of the American Specialty Manufacturers Association Boston auxiliary at the City Club luncheon. He urged a chemical public and warned against Germans' inflated view of science, noting potash analysis in Alsace and Holland's role.
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Harrison E. Howe
United States Advisory Board of Chemistry
Howe
American Specialty Manufacturers’ Association
Boston
City Club
William Leckie
Boston Managers
Henry W. Mansfield
Massachusetts Retail Grocers’ Association
America
Germany
Alsace
Holland
Botchkareva sketches in Sunday Post confessions
A Russian woman, Botchka reva, recounts a tale where her husband, intoxicated, shot a dog-catcher who came to seize his beloved dog. He is exiled, and his wife and two children accompany him in the narrative read by thousands in the Sunday Post.
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Botchkareva
Sunday Post
Moseby Named Chief P O Inspector Here
Hal B Moseby nephew of Confederate leader Colonel John Mosby is expected to succeed George A Leonard as chief post office inspector for New England when Leonard moves to the Philadelphia office on April 1. Moseby previously did special service for the State Department during the war.
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Hal B. Moseby
John §. Moseby
George A. Leonard
New England
Philadelphia
Mr. Mosebey
Post Office Department
Department of State
Vicar Praises Faith of Erin in Saint Patrick Tribute
The Rev. Milo H. Gates of the Chapel of the Intercession in New York City lauded the Irish for honoring St. Patrick during a noon service at St. Paul Cathedral. He urged reverence for all saints, urged study of their lives, and cited St. Patrick as a model of nobility and faith.
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Milo H. Gates
D.D
Dr. Gates
St. Paul’s
St. Patrick
Pines
Ireland
Coast Artillery Leads Army Return Rate to March 13
Washington reports the coast artillery tops all branches in percent returned to the United States up to March 13. Of those abroad last November, 72 percent had sailed this date, with the Tank Corps second at 67 percent. The Quartermaster Corps stood at 1 percent.
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Coast Artillery
Washington
War Department
Tank Corps
Quartermaster Corps
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